Story Writer Quotes
17 Story Writer quotes by 16 unique authors
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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
— Lynn Abbey
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Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story…
— Orson Scott Card
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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too,…
— Eudora Welty
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I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years…
— Porochista Khakpour
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So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
— John Fante
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In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
— Annie Proulx
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
— Irwin Shaw
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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying…
— O. Henry
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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew…
— Tobias Wolff
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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
— Nell Freudenberger
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Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of…
— ZZ Packer
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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and…
— George R. R. Martin
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Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
— George Saunders
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Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat…
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
— Christopher Moore
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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and…
— Eric Brown
Who Wrote These Story Writer Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Story Writer Quotes as follows: